Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla colymba Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 400. Holotype: MCZ 10234, by original designation. Type locality: "La Loma (or Buenavista) on trail from Chiriqui Lagoon to Boquete, about 1500 feet altitude", Provincia Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Hyla alvaradoi Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 882. Holotype: KU 30886, by original designation. Type locality: "Moravia, [Cantón de Turrialba, Cartago Province,] Costa Rica (on the Caribbean Slope)". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 98, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 267.

Hyloscirtus colymba — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84.

Boana colymba — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.

English Names

La Loma Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).

Distribution

Caribbean slopes of Costa Rica and western Panama and Pacific slopes of central and eastern Panama, presumed, but not documented, to extend into northwestern Colombia.

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 328-332; Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1-127; Duellman, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 11: 21-22, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 866. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 306-307. In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 249. In Hyloscirtus species group B of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351-363.

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